{"id":203328,"date":"2010-01-20T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/20fa33d0d3af12e4c60192d7b3e4090b"},"modified":"2010-01-20T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T16:40:00","slug":"article-verizon-wireless-removes-10-devices-from-350-etf-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/203328","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: Verizon Wireless removes 10 devices from $350 ETF list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/1\/91786-verizon_crowd.jpg\" alt=\"Verizon testman\" width=\"400\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chalk it up to Verizon Wireless feeling the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phonedog.com\/cell-phone-research\/blog\/fcc-responds-to-verizon-calls-answers-unsatisfying.aspx?utm_source=Rss&#038;utm_cammpaign=PhoneDog&#038;umt_medium=Blog\" >FCC&#8217;s heat<\/a> for their &#8220;advanced device&#8221; list, but it appears that the original advanced device list that was submitted to the commission in December 2009 included 10 devices that are no longer on today&#8217;s list.&nbsp; Upon initial inspection, it appears that most of the devices removed were high-end feature phones, such as the Motorola Krave, Samsung Rogue, and several LG devices.&nbsp; To recap, advanced devices were hit with a $350 early termination fee (decreasing by $10 for each month of service), while other devices remained at $175 (decreasing by $5 for each month of service).<\/p>\n<p>Verizon Wireless has not officially commented as to the reason for the removal.&nbsp; Great news for those purchasing feature phones, but for those of us that use smartphones, there&#8217;s still work to be done.&nbsp; Smartphone buyers, do you see the same thing happening, or will we be looking at a potential FCC intervention?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phonescoop.com\/news\/item.php?n=5394\" >PhoneScoop<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3BPFvPmVRowkGVOsqIySDrY5Nd8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3BPFvPmVRowkGVOsqIySDrY5Nd8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3BPFvPmVRowkGVOsqIySDrY5Nd8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/3BPFvPmVRowkGVOsqIySDrY5Nd8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/xCXP_Dp2epU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chalk it up to Verizon Wireless feeling the FCC&#8217;s heat for their &#8220;advanced device&#8221; list, but it appears that the original advanced device list that was submitted to the commission in December 2009 included 10 devices that are no longer on today&#8217;s list.&nbsp; Upon initial inspection, it appears that most of the devices removed were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}